Australian developer,associate killed execution style in Pak hotel room

The men had flown to Islamabad a week earlier and had been conducting meetings from a second room at the city8217;s five-star Marriott hotel,booked by a Karachi associate.

Police found the bodies of Haque and Young lying on a bed,and a pistol,fitted with a silencer and wiped clean of fingerprints,on the floor of their room,at about 9 p.m. last Friday.

Post-mortem examinations confirmed both men had died of a single bullet wound to the chest.

The room appeared to have been ransacked. Belongings including passports,mobile phones,cash and other valuables were missing.

Police are said to be searching for a man in his late 20s who visited the victims in their room about 11 p.m. last Thursday and stayed for two hours.